July 2019
Stepping into space with STEAM
... the big question: why? Why pursue the A in STEAM? Why pursue the uncountable opportunities in our future of space settlement before they exist, and why encourage students to consider careers that aren’t quite here yet? As the...
April 2025
Pioneering human reproduction in space
... and has been successfully integrated as a payload The overarching goal is to enable different stages of human reproduction in space, paving the way for independent human settlements beyond Earth. However, the benefits of this research extend beyond...
July 2020
Are we entering a post-Overview Effect era?
... for the environmental movement. Jeff Bezos has announced his intention to realise Gerard K O’Neill’s vision of large space settlements located at Lagrange Point L5. This quest for the ‘meaning’ of spaceflight reached a peak with the famous Earthrise...
March 2016
Mining outer space may be cool but is it legal?
... The High Frontier, Morrow, New York, 1976; Johnson, RD., Holbrow, c., ed.: Space Settlements: A Design Study, NASA SP-413, 1977, available online at: http://settlement.arc.nasa.gov/75SummerStudy/Table_of_Contents1.html. 3 See http://www.gouvernement...
July 2019
Robotic astronomy on the Moon
... Shackleton will be advantageous to the mission because it is another location of great interest to the lunar, science and space settlement communities The Moon in recent times has become a very desirable target of interest for many countries around...
20 October 2016
Asgardia: The New Space Nation
...2 The news is shocking in that it proposes a settlement on man-made space craft rather than natural space bodies like planets or asteroids. It also seeks a nation in outer space. Similar claims on outer space settlements have been made for quite some...
